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A train operator departing Warden station spotted the girl, halted his train, got out and brought her to safety.

“She was located at 1:40 a.m. She was found on the tracks. There’s no sign of the child entering the station,” said Green. Really quite heads-up work by our operator and this could have ended up tragically in a couple of ways and we’re really thankful that it didn’t.” “Happily to see me not realizing what she did.” “She cracked it open and I guess my daughter, who has autism — Skye — she saw that the handle was off,” said the mom. Article content

TTC employees discovered a 4-year-old girl walking on outdoor tracks near Warden subway station in Scarborough early Thursday morning.

They say there is no criminality to the incident. Police say they were initially called to a home about the missing child. Safety is our top concern and on review of CCTV, we can't determine how the child got to track level.

A four-year-old girl who went missing from her home Thursday morning was found wandering on train tracks near a Toronto subway station.

Neighbours in that case said they had previously complained about a lack of barriers preventing pedestrians from entering the track area. I mean, it may sound like a simple thing to stop a moving subway train and bring a child off the tracks onto the train. There's a lot of danger involved in this," Green said. We checked the fencing last night in the immediate area. "They (the conductor) were probably a bit shaken last night when this happened. We didn't see any gaps in the fence. “I have a little baby (the sister)… she opened a safety lock on the handle and cracked it open. And I don't like the idea of if she goes missing again or if she tries to escape again she's in the forest or she could end up right back here near the train,” she said. “I just gotta keep her tied to my waist. Looking to move, yeah, because I don't think it's safe. So for people that aren't familiar, it's just wide open there. “I couldn't focus.

A weekend in Toronto means you can guarantee on one thing, a TTC subway closure. This time around, there will be no subway service on Line 1 betwe...

Subway service on Line 2 between Woodbine and Kennedy stations will end at 11 p.m. nightly from August 15 to 18 for track work. As for the next scheduled weekend subway closure it will halt service on Line 1 between Sheppard West and Wilson stations on August 20 and 21 for track work. Also on August 13 and 14, trains on Line 1 between Wilson and Lawrence West stations will alternate use of the southbound track to accommodate maintenance work on the northbound track.